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HALTICINiE. 



Key to the Species. 



Underside entirely light brown C. nigromarginatus, Jac. 



Underside partly pioeous, not entirely brown. C. apicalis, Jac. 



126. Cerotrus nigromarginatus, Jacoby. 



Cerotrus nigromarginatus, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 

 1892, p. 940. 



Colour testaceous ; antennae (except the base of the first seg- 

 ment, which is brown) and tarsi black ; elytra testaceous or 

 somewhat lighter, with lateral, sutural and apical margins black ; 

 this black margin is slightly widened towards the base at the 

 suture, while in one variety the elytra may be entirely black ; 

 scutellum light brown. 



Head impunctate, frontal elevations narrow but distinctly 

 raised. Antennae long, extending nearly to the end of the elytra, 

 second and third segments extremely small and equal, the following 

 segments rather flattened and widened. Prothorax more than 

 twice as broad as long, angles tuberculiform, sides slightly rounded 

 before the middle, surface rather convex with a few minute punc- 

 tures. Scutellum triangular. Elytra very strongly but not very 

 closely punctate. Underside: posterior femora slightly thickened; 

 tibiae unarmed; claws appendicular^ ; anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



Lent /tli, 5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills, Cheba (Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



127. Cerotrus apicalis, Jacoby. 



Cerotrus {Anicera) apicalis, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii r 

 1889, p. 236. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour pale testaceous; lower portion of 

 head whitish; vertex and hase of the head, breast and scutellum 

 piceous ; elytra with sutural and lateral margins narrowly, and 

 apex broadly, black ; in one variety the elytra have a subapical, 

 transverse, angulate, black band; antennae yellowish-white, with 

 the six or seven terminal segments fuscous at their apices ; surface 

 of pronotum nearly white ; apices of hind tibiae fuscous. 



Head with a very few tine punctures ; frontal elevations rather 

 broad and flat, divided by the broad apex of the clypeus. 

 Antennae two-thirds the length of the body ; third segment one- 

 half longer than the second, fourth as long as the two preceding 

 segments together. Prothorax nearly three times broader than 

 long, sides rounded at the middle, anterior angles directed out- 

 wards, posterior margin rounded; surface shining, distantly 

 mpressed with rather large punctures. Elytra a little more 



